“Herr Commissioner,” he said, “We have arrested a man who gives us no rest, and yells all the time that he is Beethoven.”Ī very angry Beethoven remained in jail until the city’s musical director (Herr Herzog) came to bail him out.

One policeman reportedly went to a commissioner for help in dealing with him. While in jail, Beethoven gave the constables a piece of his mind. A beat cop saw him peeping through someone’s curtains and arrested him for vagrancy. He became lost and started peering into the windows of homes looking for someone to ask for help. Things came crashing down to earth when in 1820, Beethoven went out for a walk in the Austrian town of Weiner Neustadt. Documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog’s made a documentary about Gesualdo called, Death for Five Voices (1995) which examines the gruesome mythos surrounding the murders and their aftermath.īeethoven was a notorious workaholic who preferred to leave things like grooming, laundry, and housework to mear mortals to worry about. Gesualdo spent the rest of his life writing choral and instrumental music, some of which include texts that allude directly to the murder. He managed to escape prosecution by using his nobility to shield him.

In a fit of rage after finding his lover cheating on him, Gesualdo murdered them both. Gesualdo’s run-in with the law sounds like something right out of a horror movie.

3 - Carlo Gesualdo Occupation: Composer Crime: Double Homicide Gould was later released after his identity as a famous concert pianist was revealed. He was approached by Police and arrested under suspicion of being a homeless drifter. While in Sarasota Florida for a concert, Toronto-based pianist Glenn Gould - who famously had a proclivity for wearing hats, gloves, and winter coats in the summer - thought he’d take in some air on a park bench before a concert. 2 - Glenn Gould Occupation: Pianist/Producer/Composer Crime: Suspicion of Vagrancy

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